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Senior Living + Inbound Marketing Go Viral

Senior Living + Inbound Marketing Go Viral

Walker Methodist is a faith-based, non-profit senior living organization that’s been serving older adults since 1945. They own, operate, and manage 12 senior living communities and provide housing, healthcare, rehabilitation, and services to seniors …

Business Blogging and Keeping Your Message Simple

Business Blogging and Keeping Your Message Simple

About a year ago, I read a book for professional development purposes. Time and time again, I'm amazed at how much this text has influenced my day-to-day work in content creation. The book? Made to Stick. Authored by two brothers - Chip Heath and Dan…

You Don't Have a Business Blog & It's Costing You

You Don't Have a Business Blog & It's Costing You

Whether your business doesn't have a business blog at all or does have a business blog that's poorly maintained, this piece is for you. Blogging is an extremely valuable tool that too many businesses are NOT using. If you're in an industry where none…

Transworld Minnesota: Started At The Bottom, Now We're Here.

Transworld Minnesota: Started At The Bottom, Now We're Here.

In May 2016, Transworld Business Advisors of Minnesota approached Leighton Interactive as a new business franchise with some substantial goals. They wanted to fill a need in the market - a need for business advisors who were passionate about working …

Tried & True: What to Always Keep in Your Marketing Strategy

Tried & True: What to Always Keep in Your Marketing Strategy

Do you remember rotary dial phones? We had pagers, programmable cordless phones, and the first thick-as-a-brick mobile phones. And now today, few of us have any of our most important numbers memorized. In fact, if we lost our smart phones, we would b…

How to Delight Current Customers with Social Media

How to Delight Current Customers with Social Media

Attract, convert, close, delight. If you know anything about inbound marketing, you know those four steps are the key to creating long lasting customers. At its core, an inbound marketing experience is a customer-focused way of doing business that is…

Why Paid Visits Aren't Nearly as Valuable as Organic Traffic

Why Paid Visits Aren't Nearly as Valuable as Organic Traffic

By now, you could probably tell me in your sleep that traditional marketing operates like a crop duster – spraying the message on a segment of the population with the hope that they will be enticed into becoming customers. While on the other hand, in…

Make Your Content Work Smarter: How to ROPS

Make Your Content Work Smarter: How to ROPS

When you put in the time and effort to create content for your audience, content that is well researched, user-friendly, and helpful, how do you get that content in front of as many people who will benefit from it as possible? That is one of the cons…

The Secret Tool Salespeople Use (Hint: It's Content)

The Secret Tool Salespeople Use (Hint: It's Content)

"Content" is a jargon term many people aren't familiar with, even though they interact with it every day. It's another word for the information you find on the internet, such as blog posts, ebooks, infographics, white papers, and more, that you're se…

5 Tips for Building an Effective Content Marketing Plan

5 Tips for Building an Effective Content Marketing Plan

If you’ve seen the movie “Field of Dreams,” you’ll probably remember the phrase “If you build it, he will come.” In today’s marketing world, creating content is a critical component for establishing your company as a thought-leader in the industry, n…

Why is Writing an Email Newsletter so Difficult?

Why is Writing an Email Newsletter so Difficult?

We recently had a client take on the task of writing their company monthly email newsletter. When it came down to it and she sat down, writer's block set in. She found herself spinning in circles, not knowing where to start or how to execute. It’s ju…